Max Lucado Quotes

There is so much temptation to hold on to my career even more now. To try to micromanage and dictate every little aspect. But that's not how I want to do things anymore. I'm thinking about how can I trust God more. How can I surrender more? How can I bring him more glory? It's a fight. But it's one I'm going to keep fighting.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God's bidding.

God delights in our temptations and yet hates them. He delights in them when they drive us to prayer; he hates them when they drive us to despair.

God takes what the enemy meant for your bad and turns it for your good! It wasn't a set back but a set up! Wait and see what God is getting ready to do for you!

When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.

Lord I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief.

Your weaknesses are not an accident but deliberately allowed, very interesting phrase, deliberately allowed in your life for the purpose of demonstrating His power through you.

This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods. Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.

I once heard somebody say that God had closed a door on an opportunity they had hoped for. But I've always wondered if when we want to do something that we know is right and good, God places that desire deep in our hearts because He wants it for us and it honors Him. Maybe there are times when we think a door has been closed and, instead of misinterpreting the circumstances, God wants us to kick it down. Or perhaps just sit outside of it long enough until somebody tells us we can come in.

God ain't finished with any of us yet.

I don't think God's through with me.

The hardest part of being a Christian is surrendering and that is where the real struggle happens. Once we have overcome our own desire to be elevated, our own desire to be recognized, our own desire to be independent and all those things that we value very much because we are Americans and we are part of this American culture. Once we have overcome that struggle then God can use us as a part of His body to accomplish what the body of Christ was left here to accomplish.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'

I found the purpose of my existence, and also the purpose of my circumstance. There's a purpose for why you're in the fire. If God can use a man without arms and legs to be His hands and feet, then He will certainly use any willing heart!

My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'

The power that religion has is that you think nothing is random: If there's a tragedy in my life, that's God testing me or sending me a message.

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.

Just take one step at a time, trusting that God still has a plan for you, and He will make the best out of your situation.

How could you have had such a wonderful life as me if there wasn't a God directing?

I think God has chosen to use this as a tool.

Whatever happens at the end of the day, as long as I glorify His name, that's what it's all about.

I'm trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He's for them and has a purpose.

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.